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Sooners’ guard Price leads Sooners in 69-64 victory
By Blake Kimzey
THE BATTALION
If poster dunks counted for
anything more than five points,
Antoine Wright and the Texas
A&M men’s basketball team
(13-12, 5-9) would have walked
out of Reed Arena on Saturday
with a victory over the No. 3
Oklahoma Sooners (20-5, 11-3).
However, OU used the outside
sharp shooting and tenacious
defense of senior guard Hollis
Price to ring in a 69-64 victory
in front of 9,148 Aggies.
A&M boasted a home
record of 9-3 going into
Saturday’s contest, and Sooner
Head Coach Kelvin Sampson
said he couldn’t be happier
about his team’s ability to
overcome Aggies at home.
“The only teams that have
beaten them here are the best
teams in the conference,” he
said. “This year is the best the
Big 12 has ever been. For us to
go 5-3 on the road this year,
I'm very proud.”
Despite a career game from
A&M junior forward Tomas
Ress, the Aggies found them
selves in the midst of a 0-3
slide for the first time this sea
son. Ress snared six boards
and tied his career high for
points (11) and blocks (4) as he
swatted away anything within
reach. Aggie Head Coach
Melvin Watkins beamed with
pride following the five-point
loss as he discussed the consis
tent play of Ress.
“Tomas has been one of our
steadiest players,” he said. “He's
not getting enough credit. He's
been playing a lot more minutes
than we thought he would.”
With Ress controlling the
inside, OU looked to its perime
ter players to put points on the
board. Price and his Sooner
teammates must have been
inspired, as they were coming
off their worst shooting per
formance of the year. OU
rebounded from a 27 percent
outing against Missouri to
scorch the Reed Arena nets with
49 percent shooting overall, and
53 percent from downtown.
Senior A&M guard Bernard
King said he met his match on
Saturday with the assignment of
guarding Price, who hit four out
of five shots from behind the arc.
Price slithered through the Aggie
defense for 15 points in the first
half, and 23 for the game.
“He's pretty tough and he's
quick,” King said. “Once you
rest on defense, he's already
shooting. I don't think that we
respected him as much as we
should have and he scored all
those points in the first half.”
King found a way to get his
teammates involved as he
dished out eight assists to go
along with his 17 points, which
shows why he is the only play
er in the country to average at
least 17.0 points, 5.5 assists ,
and 4,3 rebounds per game.
Oklahoma’s Price said he is
no stranger to King’s game,
since the two played together in
Amateur Athletic Union com
petition. Price said what King
has been doing, and especially
against the OU defense, was
impressive to watch.
“This was my eighth time to
play against Bernard,” Price
said. “Going back AAU ball.
See Sooners on page 7
JOHN C. LIVAS • THE BATTALION
A&M center Tomas Ress blocks a shot from Oil's De’Angelo Alexander.
A&M win extends streak to six games
RANDAL FORD • THE BATTALION
A&IVl’s V/teni Walker returns a serve against No. 53 OSD.
By Jeff Allen
THE BATTALION
There was only a 10 per
cent chance of rain Saturday
at the Texas A&M Tennis
Center as the No. 33 Texas
A&M women’s tennis team
took on the No. 53
Oklahoma State squad in a
Big 12 conference match.
Still, darkening skies left
no doubt that poor weather
was on the way. Finally, after
a three-and-a-half hour rain
delay, part of a match that
lasted just shy of seven hours,
the Aggies (7-3, 3-1) defeated
the Cowgirls (5-2, 1-2).
The 5-2 win extended the
Aggies’ current win streak
to six games.
“You never know what will
happen after a rain delay,” said
A&M Head Coach Bobby
Kleinecke. “But, we were
mentally tough and were able
to work through and handle
the situation.”
Things started well
enough for the Aggie
women. The ladies claimed
the doubles point with rela
tive ease, capturing the
matches at courts two and
three with scores of 8-2 and
8-3, respectively.
The duo of senior Ashley
Hedberg and sophomore
Lauren Walker was not able to
overcome the No. 26 OSU
doubles team of junior Linda
Faltynkova and sophomore
Katia Kolodynska. The point
was important for the Aggies,
as last year the ladies dropped
the point in Stillwater, which
cost them the match. Last
year’s loss was the second in a
row for the Aggies against the
Cowgirls. The pair of losses
had come on the heels of a
seven-match winning streak
against the Big 12 foe in 2002.
Coming out of the break
on Saturday, as the skies
began to look a bit more
threatening, the Cowgirls
were able to make the
Aggies uncomfortable.
Oklahoma State captured
leads at one and two, while
keeping the match close on
most other fronts. Junior
Linda Faltynkova was able
to push out to a quick 6-1
lead against Aggie opponent
Jessica Roland.
“(Faltynkova) played
flawless in the first set,”
Kleinecke said.
See Streak on page 7
Woods sweeps Match Play Championship
By Doug Ferguson
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CARLSBAD, Calif. — Tiger
Woods completed his sweep of the
World Golf Championships on
Sunday, building a big lead and
Ihen holding off a gritty comeback
from David Toms to win the Match
Play Championship.
Leading by as many as five
holes, Woods finally closed out
Toms with a 3-foot par putt on the
35th to win, 2 and 1.
“It was a tough day for all of us,”
Woods said.
It figured to be a breeze for
Woods, especially after he had a 5-up
lead and had 8 feet for birdie on the
second hole. Toms rolled in a 35-foot
birdie putt to swing the momentum,
and slowly pieced together a charge
that made Woods look vulnerable.
Woods won a record three
straight U.S. Junior Amateur titles
and three straight U.S. Amateurs, but
he was 0-4 as a professional.
That changed during a dominant
week at La Costa, where he made
only five bogeys on a tough course
and played only 112 holes, the
fewest of any winner in the five-year
history of the tournament.
He also became the first player to
win all four of the World Golf
Championships since their inception
in 1999 — three times the NEC
Invitational, twice the American
Express Championship and the 2000
World Cup with David Duval.
The missing piece was the
Accenture Match Play
Championship, a format Woods
enjoys the most. He finally showed
why, hitting smart shots down the-
stretch when his game was off and
making Toms come after him.
Woods won for the 36th time on
the PGA Tour and earned
$1,050,000, his largest paycheck on
tour.
Since returning from knee sur
gery after a two-month rehab. Woods
has won twice and tied for fifth. His
game looks better than ever as he
starts preparing for the Masters.
Toms, who missed the cut his pre
vious two tournaments, made
$600,000.
“Tell me this: If we’re all on our
games and they’re hitting three less
clubs than me, who’s got the better
chance?” Toms said at Hazeltine
after playing the first round with
Woods and Ernie Els.
That’s exactly how it shaped up at
La Costa.
SPORTS IN BRIEF
Women's basketball team falls to
Lady Bears in final home game
The Texas A&M women's basketball team was
blown out by Baylor University in the Aggies' final
game at Reed Arena this season.
The 97-54 loss was the fourth straight for A&M
(10-16, 3-12 Big 12). Aggie seniors Lara Classen and
Tressie Mason were honored prior to the game, as
it was the last home game for the pair.
Baylor (18-9, 6-9 Big 12) kept itself in position for
a postseason berth with the victory. The Lady Bears
led by as many as 27 points against A&M. BU's
Sophia Young provided 26 points and 12 rebounds
for her team.
No. 21 Aggies win tournament,
Collins breaks home run record
A&M junior Lindsey Wilhelmson led the Aggies'
softball team to its third straight tournament victo
ry at the Stanford Classic when she hit a bases-
clearing double in the top of the eighth inning. The
hit gave A&M a 3-1 victory over No. 12 Georgia
University along with the tournament title.
Senior catcher Selena Collins broke A&M's school
record for home runs over the weekend. Collins hit
two long balls during the tournament, moving her
self to 35 in her career. Collins broke the A&M
record previously set by Liz Mera from 1985-1988.
Baseball team loses to Arizona
The Texas A&M men's baseball team lost Game 3,
17-1, to Arizona on Sunday in Tucson, Ariz. The win
was the Wildcats second in a three-game series
with the Aggies.
The Aggies scored first on Sunday when single by
senior Jordy Mitchell scored junior Matt Alexander
in the top of the first inning. That would be the only
run of the game for A&M, as a powerful Wildcats'
offense controlled the rest of the game.
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